I will research the possibility of trimming off extra length of the rope light, making sure not to leak electricity in the process. ;-) This isn't a subtle light source; right now it's like leaving on a ~40-watt bulb in the room.

Virtual decluttering continues as thousands of update and promotion emails are now gmail pixel dust. I'm moving photos around also, out of online accounts and out of harm's way before the deleting of online versions. I use Outlook to backup photos from the phone but because of the way Samsung wants to bury them deep in a Samsung folder in my Outlook account I am not letting it manage those uploads. (If you go in and move things in Outlook in those Samsung folders then Samsung syncs them or deletes them inside the phone, creating chaos.) This means I periodically have to upload manually, essentially sharing with that account.

I stopped using Dropbox in the spring (I still have the free account with 7.5G of space) because they were so pushy, but I've moved some of the files into the computer then uploaded them to Outlook, and others I've moved into resident photo files on the computer. I'm clearing out a lot of stuff related to past employment and writing projects in Dropbox and am going to again let it upload my phone photos to that file because it is still the easiest way to get them for use immediately when I'm working on the computer. The trouble is, if I let it start uploading now it's going to want to go back and get everything it hasn't touched since March. I'll have to figure out how to tell it to load from now forward but no backlog. I have to go into a little watchdog program that guards the registry - I told it to block Dropbox nagging about uploads so I'll undo that when I ready.

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen I'm still reading about food, nearing the end of The Case for Keto. I just read the bit about sodium and what Charmion was experiencing, and the accounts from different physicians who describe the approach each took to low carb high fat eating, most of them landing in Keto land with ketosis to control blood sugar. I'm still adjusting my diet and deciding how many "slow carbs" to include, and I do have dairy (cheese, yogurt, and little bit of milk, with milk liable to be phased out.) He suggests that sticking with more olive oil and less butter is a way to lower the LDL if it becomes a particular struggle (mono-saturated versus regular saturated). More research ahead.

Yesterday I sent an email with photos and receipt and heard back this morning that Ames (a subgroup of Craftsman) is going to mail me a new spade fork. I'm curious to see how that works out; you know I'm going to put it to the test when it arrives.